Essendon CAS decision: James Hird claims 'miscarriage of justice'

Former Essendon coach James Hird has claimed a miscarriage of justice after 12-month suspensions were handed to his former Essendon players by the Court of Arbitration for Sport on Tuesday morning (AEDT).

Hird, who spoke with Fairfax Media, released a short statement saying he was shocked by the decision, which overturned the original AFL anti-doping tribunal's finding - that the tribunal was not comfortably satisfied that the 34 past and present Essendon players take taken a banned substance. .

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Rohan Connolly, a senior football writer for The Age and radio broadcaster with sports radio station 1116 SEN, has been covering the game since 1983. A multi-AFL Media Association award-winner known for his passion and love of the game, he analyses the AFL for the newspaper and contributes a blog and weekly video, "Footy Fix", for The Age's football website, Real Footy.